This week's CES will feature looks at Steam Machines from various partners in
Valve's hardware initiative.
Engadget reports a dozen companies have announced plans to show off SteamOS
machines at the show: Alienware, Falcon Northwest, iBuyPower, CyberPowerPC,
Origin PC, Gigabyte, Materiel.net, Webhallen, Alternate, Next, Zotac, and Scan
Computers (thanks
Destructoid). On a related note, CyberPowerPC sends along specs for two of
their SteamOS-powered machines to give a sense of what to
expect:

CYBERPOWERPC Steam Machine will come in several pre-configured
options priced from $499 to $699 with the ability customize all models.

CYBERPOWERPC Steam Machine A

CYBERPOWERPC Steam Machine I

Base Price

$499

$699

Case

CYBERPOWERPC Steam
Machine Gaming Chassis

Graphics

AMD Radeon R9 270 2GB GDDR5 Video Card

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB GDDR5 Video Card

Processor

AMD A6-6400K 3.90 GHz

Intel® Core™ i3-4330 3.50 GHz

Storage

500GB SATA-III 7200
RPM HDD

RAM

8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual
Channel Memory

Chipset

mITX motherboard w/ 802.11 WiFi + Bluetooth

mITX motherboard w/ 802.11 AC WiFi + Bluetooth

Accessory

Steam Controller

OS

SteamOS

Availability

ETA: 2H 2014

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Prez wrote on Jan 6, 2014, 15:14:I'm really curious to see how these things are received. Like others I find myself wondering if there is even a market for such a device. I find myself hoping that there is, if only to get more people playing PC games.

If there's a market for 12 or more overpriced boutique PC builders, then there's a market for a Steambox.